Cover Without Any Cancellation!

Dear informed members,

I received a cover today, with stamps on them and absolutely NO cancellation.. at all!

Is that even possible? Anyone else experience this before? Curious..

Ram.

Very common occurrence. Probably two pieces ran through the cancelling/sorting equipment at the same time. Sometimes I wonder if the USPS would do better in monitoring these things more closely, as it results in lost revenue for an already cash-strapped postal agency, but on the flip side, any such monitoring comes at a cost that would more than exceed the lost value of the postage stamps missed during the process.

An unfortunate thing for us stamp collectors; but all part of a days work in the minds of the US Postal Service.

Yes, I've seen it a number of times. I've even got an envelope here which went through the machine upside down, so the cancel is on the back and the lovely stamps on the front were all torn by the machine. Sad face.

PERHAPS part of why things cost more now?

I also have noticed that stamps are fairly often not being cancelled. I can recall a half dozen instances in the past two months. One was a small parcel, two others were larger birthday type envelopes.

Yeah, I have wondered about this.
I have several covers old and modern, that the cancel
is either not there, or placed in such a way that it
missed the stamp(s) entirely. I have an FDC cover that
was not canceled. Stamped, but no cancel. ???

I also have others that look like they were prepared,
but never mailed... ??? Maybe mailed, maybe not. Don't know.

Yep, I just got one today. I thought it weird too.

Happens every day,it's the postal service's way of being giving back. Float em off the cover with some Ronsonol and reuse those "Forever" stamps,or just put address labels over the original address and reuse the entire, besides saving money you will be saving the planet.Put's another twist on the "Forever stamp"

Reuse the stamps! Puts another twist on the USPS's "Go Green" theme, too! Recycle/Reuse!

Hi

Most British stamps go uncancelled these days - the Royal Mail think it will save money by not franking.

It happened again!
Received an Austrian collection from Irishjack in this envelope with this terrific block of 1957 Canadian sports stamps....UNCANCELLED.
How is Canada Post ever going to make ends meet. If I were a less than honest man (and I'm not saying I haven't been in the past), I'd remove these and reuse them.




Lucky for them I think it's just too cool.

If you actually want them cancelled as you collect them that way, you could just drop it in the mail again (if you're in the same country it was sent from) and you might get them back cancelled. Or take them to the local post office and have them manually cancel perhaps.